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Religious arbitration has been in the news recently and I would like to offer my perspective as a Jew, a rabbi and inter-religious leader who cherishes…
In Their Own Words
The idea hit me as I was driving, through the border from Germany to France: Germany, a separate state? France, a separate state? So, what is…
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Sanctifying and living the meaning of circumcision In our last article we discussed kosher, as it is taught in the Torah, and we presented an enlightened…
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An enlightened approach to Jewish education begins by teaching not from the standpoint of religion In my last article, we set basic educational guidelines for how…
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In this, the final article on my series “Re-JEW-venating the Jew”, I would like to propose something very bold. Actually, it is not very bold. It…
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The spiritual insights that will merge out of this algorithm can be systematically taught and cultured to bring about a new Jewish Enlightenment. In my last…
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It’s time to finish up our discussion of those core theo-logical confusions that must be corrected if we’re going to re-JEW-venate the contemporary Jew. For all…
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For one thousand years, Jews, if not many religious people, have been stuck in intellectual chaos. The chaos began innocently enough. There was some kind of…
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The authoritative limits of “democracy” under Transcendent Reason have been pushed to the breaking point: Whose Reason should I follow? For those Jews who believe as…
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The first article in Rabbi Michael Shevack‘s new series, Re-JEW-venating the JEW. Imagine, if the evangelical impulse that fired up our Western (Christian-derived) civilization suddenly turned…
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Rabbi Michael Shevack‘s final article in his Re-JEW-venating Civilization series. In my last article, Creeping Finitism, I warned about the contemporary idolatries that are destroying a…
Christianity
Rabbi Michael Shevack says either we learn one ancient Hebrew lesson or Western Civilization runs the risk of imploding on itself. In this, Article #4 on…